From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of Second Chechen War assassinations
List of Second Chechen War assassinations
Following is the incomplete list of assassinations con- • November 29, 2001 - A young Chechen woman, Elza
War,
nected to the Second Chechen War conducted by the Gazuyeva, carried out an assassination attempt on
Russian Federation secret agents and the Chechen sep- the Urus-Martan military district commandant,
aratist and North Caucasian rebels, as well as by an un- identified only as General Geydar Gadzhiev, blowing
known assailants. herself up with a hand grenade near a group of
Main article: Second Chechen War Russian soldiers. Gazuyeva had lost a husband, two
brothers, and a cousin in the war. Gadzhiev, who was
Assassinations in Chechnya accused of atrocities against civilians by locals,
reportedly had personally summoned Elza to witness
• May 2000 - Moderate Chechen separatist politician her husband’s and brother’s torture and execution.
Ruslan Alikhadzhyev abducted and killed by the He and several other soldiers later died of their
Russian forces in Shali. wounds.[4][5][6][7]
• May 31, 2000 - Sergei Zveryev, Russia’s second • January 27, 2002 - A Russian Interior Ministry Mi-8
highest official in Chechnya, was killed by a remote was shot down in Nadterechny District, killing
controlled bomb in Grozny. The city Mayor Supyan eleven people including crew. Among those killed in
Makhchayev, who was with Zveryev, was injured in the crash were Russian Deputy Interior Minister
the bombing, and his assistant was also killed.[1] Lieutenant-General Mikhail Rudchenko, responsible
• May 4, 2001 - A prominent Chechnya’s religious for security in the Southern Federal District, and
leader, Mullah Nasruddin Matuyev, was shot dead by deputy commander of the Internal Troops Major-
two unidentified gunmen when he was returning General Nikolai Goridov, as well as several other
home from the mosque in the village of Novye Atagi. high-ranking officers including colonels Oriyenko,
• April 18, 2001 - Car of the Russian human rights Stepanenko, and Trafimov. The chopper’s downing
activist Victor Popkov was attacked in Chechnya by coincided with the five-year anniversary of the
unknown assailants. On June 2 he died of his wounds election of separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov as
in a hospital in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. President of Chechnya.[8]
• June 6, 2001 - Local administration head of the • March 19, 2002 - One of the leaders of the radical
village Gekhi-Chu Lema Idrisov was killed in the wing of the Chechen resistance and the influential
Urus-Martan district; 17 administration officials and Jordanian volunteer, Amir Khattab, was killed by a
six heads of village administrations have been killed poisoned letter in an operation by the Federal
in Chechnya in the eight months since January 2001. Security Service (FSB). The messenger, a Dagestani
On June 10 Lukman Madalov, head of the double agent known as Ibragim, was reportedly
administration of village Valerik in the Achkhoy- tracked down and killed a month later in Azerbaijan
Martan district, was shot dead in his house.[2] on Shamil Basayev’s orders.[9]
• September 10, 2001 - Lecha Kadyrov, a nephew the • September 10, 2002 - Administrative head of the
head of Chechnya’s pro-Moscow administration Nadterechny District, Akhmad Zavgayev (brother of
Akhmad Kadyrov, and three of his companions were Doku Zavgayev), was killed as unknown gunmen
shot dead near Kurchaloy, east Chechnya, after opened fire his car in his home village of Beno-Yurt,
attackers fired at their car. several kilometers away from Chechnya’s border
• October 17, 2001 - A surface-to-air missile shot down with North Ossetia.
a VIP Mi-8 helicopter over the Chechen capital • November 16, 2002 - Lieutenant-General Igor Shifrin,
Grozny, killing all aboard. The helicopter was head of the Glavspetzstroi (Main Directorate of Special
carrying Major-General Anatoli Pozdnyakov, Construction of the Ministry of Defense), was killed
member of the General Staff of the Russian Armed in ambush in Grozny when his and another vehicle
Forces, Major-General Pavel Varfolomeyev, deputy came under intense fire from automatic weapons.
director of staff of the Defence Ministry of Russia, During the manhunt for the killers of the general,
eight colonels, and three crewmembers. According two policemen were killed and two more were
to Anna Politkovskaya, who interviewed General wounded; an unspecified number of Chechen
Pozdnyakov an hour before his death, the attack was gunmen were reported killed in the firefight.[10]
actually work of the corrupt elements in the Russian • March 5, 2003 - The Chechen OMON special-purpose
military in Chechnya.[3] police commander, Dzhabrail Yamadayev, was killed
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in his own house in the village of Dyshne-Vedeno by by a bomb planted underneath his car. Two days
a bomb planted under a couch that he slept on; the later, March 12, a senior officer from the Organized
explosive device was so powerful that the house was Crime Department was shot dead in Makhachkala,
almost completely destroyed. Dzhabrail Yamadayev and another was killed on March 21 in the town of
was one of Chechnya’s best-known and influential Buinaksk.
figures. During the First Chechen War the • May 17, 2006 - An explosion in Ingushetia killed
Yamadayev brothers fought against the federal seven people including among them the republic’s
troops and enjoyed great influence as field police chief and acting first Deputy Interior Minister
commanders, but changed sides in 1999. Dzhabrail Kostoyev; the explosion was so powerful
• May 9, 2004 - Pro-Russian President Akhmad that his armoured SUV was thrown 20 meters by the
Kadyrov was assassinated in a blast of the substantial blast and wrecked. The attack in Nazran was
bomb inside of a Grozny’s Uvays Akhtayev Stadium presumably committed with a car loaded with
during the celebration of Russian Victory Day. A remote detonated explosives. On April 7, 2004,
number of other top government and military President Murat Zyazikov, a former KGB general, was
officials were killed or injured in the attack lightly injured by a suicide car bomb, and he was
including: The Chairman of the State Council of saved by the armour plating of his Mercedes-Benz.
Chechnya, Hussein Isayev, the military commander On August 26, 2005, Prime Minister Ibragim
in the North Caucasus, Colonel-General Valery Malsagov was wounded in a double bomb attack on
Baranov, the Chechen interior minister, Alu his motorcade in Nazran which killed his driver.
Alkhanov and the military commandant of Dzhabrail Kostoyev himself had earlier become the
Chechnya, Major-General Grigory Fomenko. In all, 13 target of several assassination attempts involving
persons in the VIP stand were killed, and 53 were bomb and rocket attacks; two of his relatives
wounded. Kadyrov had survived at least three including a brother, also a police officials, were killed
preceding bomb attacks: one on his Grozny in 2005.
headquarters in 2002, one by a pair of female suicide • June 9, 2006 - Two officials were killed minutes apart
bombers at a religious festival in Iliskhan-Yurt on in Ingushetia by gunmen wearing black uniforms,
May 14, 2003, and another by a young shahidka, berets, and masks. The assassinations appeared to be
Mariam Tashukhadzhiyeva, in Grozny few weeks another round of carefully timed attacks against the
later. His successor, acting President Sergei government. First, Galina Gubina, an administrator
Abramov, was targeted by yet another bombing in responsible for helping ethnic Russian families
July 2004 which he survived. resettle in the region was gunned down. Then, Musa
• February 7, 2007 - Mairbek Murdagaliyev, deputy Nalgiyev, the commander of Ingushetia’s OMON riot
head of the Vedensky District administration, killed police, was killed as he drove his three young
in a blast of an explosive device planted at the door children to school. Nalgiyev’s children were also
of his house.[11] killed, as were the commander’s two guards. In
recent weeks, rebels in Ingushetia have also
Assassinations in North Cauca- kidnapped Magomed Chakhiyev, a lawmaker and the
father-in-law of President Murat Zyazikov, and have
sus attempted to kill Health Minister Magomed
Aliskhanov. Galina Gubina earlier escaped an
• February 2, 2005 - Major-General Magomed Omarov,
attempt on her life two years ago when a bomb went
Dagestan’s deputy Interior Minister, was
off under Gubina’s car, severely wounding her.[12]
assassinated in capital Makhachkala, when rebels
• August 8, 2006 - A car bomb and gun attack killed
ambushed his motorcade and killed him in the
prosecutor Bitar Bitarov in Dagestan and wounded
shoot-out. Omarov had coordinated all major anti-
his two bodyguards. A motorcade including the
insurgent operations in the republic and had
armored car carrying Dagestani Interior Minister
narrowly escaped another assassination attempt in
Adilgerei Magomedtagirov was also fired on as it
2003.
approached the scene to investigate, and two police
• March 22, 2006 - A group of assailants fatally shot
officers accompanying him were shot and killed.
Ruslan Aliyev, the chief administrator of
After this, a second bomb went off around 20 meters
mountainous Botlikhsky District of Dagestan, during
from the site of the first blast, wounding three of
a fierce gunbattle; Aliyev’s vehicle was struck by
minister’s bodyguards and three civilians. The
gunfire in the center of Makhachkala] on the city’s
Interior Ministry said the attacks appeared to have
most guarded street. On March 10, Magomed
been carefully planned, and the rebels claimed
Magomedov, deputy head of the republican Criminal
responsibility.[13] The next day two hand grenades
Investigation Department, was killed in Makhachkala
targeted the house of Ingushetia’s Nazranovsky
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District prosecutor, Girkhan Khazbiyev, killing his Staff for the late Chechen president, Akhmad
brother and injuring 13 family members.[14] Kadyrov, between 2001 and 2003. [17]
• August 29, 2006 - A former police chief of an anti- • July 9, 2004 - First editor of Forbes Russian edition,
organized crime department in southern Russia was American journalist Paul Klebnikov was shot to
gunned down near a hospital in central Nazran and death on a Moscow street late at night by unknown
died at the scene. Akhmed Murzabekov, a district assailants. In August 2006 a source close to the case
police chief in Ingushetia, was shot three times but told Reuters the investigation was now focussing on
survived a previous assassination attempt on August a possible link between Klebnikov’s murder and his
23. The official said a rapid reaction group following interest in the possible misappropriation of Russian
Murzabekov engaged the attackers, possibly funds intended for the reconstruction of Chechnya.
wounding one of them, but added that the assailants [18] It is possible there’s a direct link with the
escaped. murder of Yan Segunin two weeks before.
• September 11, 2006 - Three army generals, including • October 7, 2006 - Russian journalist Anna
Chief of logistics of Russia’s North Caucasus Military Politkovskaya was found shot dead in the elevator of
District, Major-General Vladimir Sorokin, died when her apartment block in central Moscow with four
an army Mi-8 helicopter crashed in a suburb of gunshot wounds, news agencies reported. [19][20]
Vladikavkaz, killing at least 12. It had a three-strong She was a prominent critic of the Chechen War and
crew and was carrying a group of 11 high-ranking Russian President Vladimir Putin. Politkovskaya’s
officers, including Gen. Sorokin and a few other Novaya Gazeta said it believed her murder was either
generals, who were taking part in a military exercise revenge by Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan
that had begun in the region of North Ossetia earlier Kadyrov or an attempt to discredit him.
in the day. The local rebel group Kataib al-Khoul, Politkovskaya also angered other powerful people -
which has vowed to shoot down Russian military including the Russian military - with her
aircraft on September 7, accepted responsibility. investigative reporting and human rights advocacy.
• July 21, 2007 - Gunmen in Karabulak, Ingushetia, • November 18, 2006 - Movladi Baisarov, a Chechen
killed Vakha Vedzizhev, a well-known figure in the warlord and former FSB special-task unit
republic and an adviser to Ingushetia’s president on commander, was killed in central Moscow by
religious matters.[15] members of the Chechen police.
• July 26, 2007 - Khura-Magomed Ramazanov, a senior • September 24, 2008 - Chechen clan leader and former
Islamic cleric in Dagestan, was killed by a radio- Duma deputy Ruslan Yamadayev shot dead near the
controlled bomb in Makhachkala. His driver was also Kremlin in Moscow.
killed and his bodyguard was wounded.[16]
• January 12, 2008 - Two high-ranking officers were Assassinations abroad
assassinated when their car came under fire in • February 13, 2004 - The former Chechen President,
Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. The victims were the Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, was assassinated by a car
head of the region’s UBOP Anatoly Kyarov,[1] and a bomb in Qatar; up to two other people were killed in
senior officer of the OMON special police. Two other the blast and his teenage son was wounded. The
officers were injured and remained in critical Russian government denied involvement in the
condition.[2] Rebels reported that the actual target attack by blaming infighting among rebel factions
for the assault was Chief of the FSB, Nikolai and a dispute over money. Moscow had, at the time,
Patrushev.[3] been involved in a bid to extradite Yandarbiyev to
• November 26, 2008 - Vitaly Karayev, the mayor of Russia to face terrorism-related charges. A Qatari
the North Ossetian capital, Vladikavkaz, was killed court convicted two Russian government Foreign
by a gunman.[4] An Islamist group claimed the Intelligence Service (SVR) agents in the bombing.
murder.[5] • January 13, 2009 - Umar Israilov, former bodyguard
and critic of Ramzan Kadyrov, was gunned down in
Other Vienna, Austria.
• March 30, 2009 - Sulim Yamadayev, former
Assassinations in Moscow commander of a GRU Spetznaz battalion and rival of
Ramzan Kadyrov, dies after being shot in Dubai.
• June 25, 2004 - A former top official in Chechnya’s
pro-Moscow administration, Lieutenant-General Yan
Sergunin, was shot point-blank and killed by an
assailant riding a motorcycle in downtown Moscow, References
and his Chechen wife was wounded. Sergunin served [1] Top cop killed, Russia launches hunt for militants
as Chechnya’s Deputy Prime Minister and Chief of
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[3] An operation aimed at eliminating Patrushev 155882006.html
carried out in Nalchik [5] http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081127/118573963.html
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